Easy Black Bean soup

Ingredients:

• 1 onion - chopped
• 2 cloves garlic (optional to make 1 or none)
• 1 large carrot, grated
• 1 can black beans (drained)
• 1 cup vegetable broth
• 2 Tbsp cumin
• salt to taste
• 2 Tbsp olive oil for sauteeing vegetables

• Ripe Avacado to garnish or mexican cheese to top
• OPTIONAL topping: scallions

Recipe:

1. Heat olive oil to medium heat
2. Add chopped onions and saute until translucent (about 30 sec to 1 min)
3. Add cumin and saute for about 20 seconds
4. Add carrots, a pinch of salt and saute until tender (about 5-10 mins)
5. Add black beans and stir until mixed
6. Saute for about 5 mins to blend/mix
7. Add vegetable stock
8. Stir and let boil for about 10 minutes until all the flavors blend
9. Blend with hand blender or in a regular blender
   NOTE: If the soup is too thick, add some more broth until it is the consistency you want.

Serve with slices of avacado or with cheese as topping.

OPTIONAL topping: chopped scallions

UPDATE: 2/2/08: I added a bunch of fresh spinach to this recipe today. I added it after the carrots and it was very good. I liked that it was something green and also had iron.

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